OBAMA AND The Obsolete Man: Refusing To Let The Soul Of America Die

No Sheeples Here: The Obsolete Man: Refusing To Let The Soul Of America Die

We are witnessing a transformation—an insidious alteration of the greatest nation on Earth—the United States of America. President Obama and his minions seek to change the political landscape of our beloved country and take our hard-fought freedoms away from us all. I need not enumerate his radical ideas here—you are already familiar with them.

The demagoguery of the left in recent days reminded me of a portentous parable by Rod Sterling called The Obsolete Man.

The story begins:

“You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace.”
America was founded by brave men and women who sought freedom from the oppression of tyranny and were willing to die for that freedom. Their refusal to yield to tyranny launched the American War for Independence in 1775. Thirteen tiny colonies waged war against a mighty enemy and Patrick Henry dared to proclaim:


"They tell us Sir, that we are weak—unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power.”
Thomas Paine sounded the call to arms with, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

Elie Wiesel, who survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz and dedicated his life to ensuring that none of us forget what happened to the Jews during Hitler’s reign of terror, gives notice that,


“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is not an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.”
In town hall meetings all across this great nation, Americans have begun challenging their Senators and Congressmen on ObamaCare. Evocative of history’s failed dictators, the White House, the Democratic Party and their union hoods have locked citizens out of public meetings because logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

The American citizenry is not stupid. It is not comprised of extremists and it is not Nazi-like. Mock us at your peril.

Looming in the not too distant future are the elections of 2010. The left’s belief that they are “better than us” will come with a heavy price at the ballot box. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.

The Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith playing a character who defies a totalitarian government.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

OBAMA IS AN ARROGANT JERK OFF ! SAY NO TO HIS HEALTH CARE BS

IF OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN IS PASSED WE ARE ALL DOOMED.
He wants to play God now and his cronies in the WHITEHOUSE AND CONGRESS will decide who lives and who dies and who gets care and who does not. SCREW THESE PEOPLE. WHO THE HELL DO THEY THINK THEY ARE ??? THEY CAN ALL GO TO HELL FOR ALL I CARE.

The Obama Resistance Grows and grows and grows~JUST SAY NO~HELL NO

The Obama Resistance Grows

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The Obama Resistance Grows
By Lee Cary
Spontaneous, uncoordinated, passionate -- citizen resistance to Obama socialism grows by the day.

America is no stranger to resistance. The nation was born from citizen resistance that had mixed support among the colonists. About one in five was loyal to the King. Some of the bitterest fighting in the American Revolution was between Loyalists and Patriots. And all of it was between Americans in the Civil War. We know how to resist.

There was a spontaneous resistance after December 7, 1941. It shook America out of its flirtation with isolationism. In that case, it was largely Republican politicians who were slow to see the danger from international tyrants. Edwin Bodley of East Chicago, Indiana was a junior in engineering at Purdue University when he joined the students who, upon hearing the news of Pearl Harbor, spilled out of their dormitories in a spontaneous demonstration of resistance. The next day Edwin enlisted in the Air Force. After flying 56 missions over the "Hump," he volunteered to go back to the war and rescue downed flyers in the Pacific. Lieutenant Bodley died on August 13, 1945, hours before the war ended, the navigator on the last US crew aircraft lost to hostile action in World War II. The resistance never died in him. His name was Legion for there were many like him in those days.

So we Americans understand resistance. We don't hunger to engage in it. We can be slow to respond to the non-violent circumstances that provoke it. But once it begins, it takes its own course among us. Like water pulled by gravity seeking its own level. It's happening now.

The internet has shortened the gestation period for resistance. Nearly every day a new video surfaces on the web showing an angry crowd of ordinary citizens talking back to their member of Congress, or to some Cabinet person, as the pol morphs from confident and officious to stunned and stupefied. (Obama's czars, on the other hand, like their Russian predecessors, never face public scrutiny. They butterfly float in an ether world of inbreed wonkishness in search of purpose, doing who knows what. Hopefully, little.)

The April 15th Tea Parties, belittled by the legacy media, were collectively the coming-out event of a new American resistance. The cause then was out-of-control government spending. Today, it's shifted to a wider focus on Obama's brand of socialism for America. When the cover of the February 16, 2009 issue of Newsweek proclaimed "We Are All Socialists Now," it was a barely visible comet streaking across a news cycle. Not now. "Like hell we are!" is the rising antiphonal response today as a litany of proposed socialist legislation lines up in Congress.

Barack, Nancy, Harry, Rahm, Barney, Waxman et al have been cattle-driving a legislative cramdown since the TARP bill passed in George W. Bush's final days. They mistook victory against a tepid Republican presidential candidate for a mandate to reconstitute the United States of America. Slow to awaken, her citizens now grow angrier. It's not the loss of land and lives they fear, but of freedoms. Accustomed to trusting any new president, they're quickly losing confidence in this one. Seduced by his artful use of the spoken word, they're growing attuned to the nuances within his words. When he begins a sentence with "Let me be clear about this," our listening becomes acute, for it's not clarity that often follows, but evasiveness through circuitous parsing.

As members of Congress go home for recess it won't be to playground games. Some will hide from their constituents, not wanting to face them. Why bother? They plan to vote as Rahm and their party leaders tell them anyway, for their only ideology is to remain in power. Others will think, "The people have short memories; soon they'll be back watching reruns of Law & Order." They'll underestimate the resistance. Meanwhile, the legacy media will attribute it to right-wingers and belligerent extremists incited by their demonized arch enemies, conservative talk show hosts. They don't get it either.

Others, the bolder pols, will face their constituents and be so foolish as to presume to tell them what they, the voters, should think. Tell them what's good for them, whether they know it or not. This will be a mistake. Unless they represent the uniformly like-minded, these members of Congress will face spirited resistance. More of it than most will have encountered in their political careers. When it comes, their faces will assume fault lines of shock-and-awe in the face of citizen audacity. Some will paper over it with thin smiles and louder talk. That won't work.

Vocal opposition from their constituents differs from what they're accustomed to hearing from colleagues on the floor of the House or Senate. There it's, "I respectfully take exception to the position expressed by the honorable member from the state of bla bla bla." The ruling class speaks the language of the ruling class when citizens might be watching on C-SPAN. But in the public forum, people speak plainly, in a language with which some members of Congress are not used to being addressed. The resistance doesn't speak Beltway.

Regardless of the decibel-level of the opposition to Obamacare and Cap & Tax that Congress hears back home, many will return to their Safe Zone inside the Capital and vote against the wishes of their constituents. They are, after all, wiser and more knowledgeable in these matters than the voters. They may chose not to give us the government we want, but the government they think we should want. And would want, if we knew what was good for us. Such is the timeless arrogance of power.







If that happens, stand-by. For the American resistance will continue to mount, and soon begin to register on the Richter scale.

Illustrations by Big Fur Hat. No actual Obama posters were harmed in the preparation of these graphics.

HEALTHCARE ? Harry and Louise SUX !! WHAT IDIOTS IN THE TANK WITH OBAMA !

TALK ABOUT BEING IN THE TANK WITH OBAMA....
WHO THE HELL IS WE ?
If you think for one damn minute that people in this country are going to sit back and let the 535 crooks and liars and scumbags decide in thier bills they write who will live and who will die in their healthcare bill they have another thought coming.
We will all be old someday. Is this what you want ?? Take a pain pill you don't need that hip replacement or knee replacement, you are too old. You don't have long left anyway and you are retired and don't pay taxes anymore so you are DENIED !!
SCREW THAT ! SCREW OBAMA AND HIS CRONIES IN THE WHITEHOUSE AND CONGRESS. WHO THE HELL DO THESE SCUM THINK THEY ARE ? "GOD" ?

Citizen Informants wanted by Obama to show and tell~GASP !

Citizen Informants

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TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS....

In 1930's Germany, the new socialist government of Adolf Hitler (NAZI National Socialist Workers' Party) began indoctrinating children in the quasi-military organization, the Hitler Youth, to inform on their parents should they overhear discussions subversive to the policies of the Leader. As the noose was tightened, local community organizers were appointed to watch their neighbors and were told to report subversive comments to the bureaucrats above them. Neighbors informed on neighbors, some for reasons of patriotism or loyalty, some from fear. A modern inquisition ensued; a terror to free thought and expression. Increasingly harsh penalties were meted out to those who dared to dissent.


The socialist governments of the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, N. Korea, Cuba, Yugoslavia, and the People's Republic of China employed the same citizen informer techniques. Citizens of those societies were reduced to either silence or whispered discussion only among those they trusted the most. Of course none of those things would ever occur here in the land of the free. But wait...


Now on the White House website posted by Macon Phillips comes an eerily similar request for citizens to inform on their neighbors. It states,


"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to the end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."


Read this again carefully. The government of the United States is openly asking citizens to report rumors, the contents of casual conversation, and the contents of emails. They decry the fact that they are unable to "keep track" of the communication between citizens effectively and are asking for help from informers. Of course forwarded emails would contain the electronic addresses of the sender.


Does this sound like the country you know (knew)? Are these the words of people who think of themselves as public servants, or is this something darker? Does a constitutional government tasked with protecting the rights of its citizens ask them to inform on each other to the White House?


Are we now like one of those totalitarian states? No. But we have become more collectivist. Is the move toward appointing unaccountable Czars with enormous authority, the takeover of multiple industries (corporatism), the restructuring of the economy on a socialist-command model, and the request for citizens to inform on their fellows a step closer to that ugly place? Unquestionably, the answer has to be yes. We must be concerned with the direction in which we are headed as well as the breathtaking speed.


Forty years ago, a philosopher named Leonard Peikoff wrote a book (still in print) called The Ominous Parallels. In it he shows the parallels (then scarcely noticeable) between the rise of Hitler's socialism and the trends in the United States. At the time, the book could have been dismissed as the ranting of an over-zealous, though erudite and articulate, conspiracy nut. In retrospect, Peikoff appears to have been quite prescient. Reading it today, it appears like a roadmap of the last half century and how we got to this point. The implications are clear. If the direction of the nation and the philosophic perspective of the populace isn't brought back to the founding principles, the end point is predetermined. Unfortunately, the premises underlying the agenda are shared by both major parties. The opposition party is neutered in that it has accepted the premises of the socialists, a strategy doomed to failure.


My father and several uncles risked their lives in World War II to bring down the socialist threat of the German and Italian Axis powers. They survived. Many of their buddies were maimed or killed in that struggle. That generation successfully destroyed the military threat, but their efforts were blunted by the persistence of the altruist-collectivist philosophical virus which animated those socialists and which has infected the USA. Aside from the anti-Semitism of that time, both Western Europe and the USA are thoroughly imbued with the language and programs of the National Socialist program including its major platforms of National Health care, National Retirement benefits, National business plans, National agricultural plans, social safety nets, politically correct expression expectations, national ministers or Czars who answer only to the Leader, and the endless "we" talk so characteristic of collectivist societies.


Our forebears sacrificed so much to pass on the blessings of liberty. The least that we can do in the shadow of those heroes is to exercise our right to speak, and to do so out loud, not in whispers fearing that someone will forward our thoughts to the Watchers. These intimidating tactics must end.

Time to Inform on Ourselves That Obama & company sux !

Time to Inform on Ourselves

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August 05, 2009
Time to Inform on Ourselves
Lee Cary

The White House wants us to inform on those who are disseminating (what they consider as) misinformation about Obamacare. Let's accommodate them.


Many of us have, no doubt, spoken with friends and neighbors about it the healthcare bill pending in the House. Invariably, some of those conversations have assumed a negative tone concerning the proposal to nationalize healthcare.


So, in the spirit of civic responsibility and patriotism, let's inform on ourselves. We'll feel better if we do - I know I did.


All one need do is send an email to flag@whitehouse.gov (I don't know what flag that refers to but am pretty sure it's not the Stars & Stripes) and turn oneself in. Confession is good for the soul, it's been said. (Did Obama say that?)

Erin Bonsteel has captured the mood:

Biden Explodes over 'Obama Is Marxist' Question

This lady asked all the right questions of Joe Biden recently and he could not believe she was asking him these questions. FINALLY someone with balls.
Biden Explodes over 'Obama Is Marxist' Question

Joe Biden is interviewed by Barbara West of WFTV..